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Lord John Russell as Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1840 [Colonial Office, Whitehall; banking regulations] [Lord John Russell and banking in the colonies, 1840.] Colonial Office manuscript circular dispatch by Russell, with printed set of ‘Regulations and Conditions’ regarding ‘Banking Companies’, for governors, legislative bodies and local authorities. The printed item is excessively scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat or JISC. Transcriptions of both items are to be found in The Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick, 20 January to 26 March, pp.26-28. The two items are in good condition, lightly aged and worn....		£120.00
[Wright's Patent Drag (the Proprietor, No. 22 Church Street, Soho [subsequently 138 Holborn Bars]), London [Baddeley, engraver; nineteenth-century coach building; Victorian carriages; transport] [Nineteenth-century coach building.] Lithographed handbill advertisement for 'Wright's Patent Drag' (i.e. brake for a horse-drawn coach), with two illustrations by Baddeley, and four testimonials. With accompanying engraving. Text: 2pp., foolscap 8vo (35 x 20.5cm.). Engraving: 12 x 16cm with corners clipped. Both items in fair condition, on aged paper. The text is cropped at the head, through a royal crest, and has rounded corners at the head and trimmed corners at the foot. The engraving has traces of grey paper...	Travel and Topography	£180.00
[The Irish Citizen] Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, largely devoted to women's suffrage (during the hunger strikes of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin) and with strapline: 'For Men and Women Equally \| The Rights of Citizenship; \| From Men and Women Equally \| The Duties...		£65.00
[William M. Murphy, preface; Independent Newspapers] [Pamphlet] Fifty Points against Partition. Fifty Points against Partition. With preface by William M. Murphy (Dublin: Independent Newspapers, Ltd., [1917]). Pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, fair condition only.The only copy on COPAC at the BL, which attributes the whole pamphlet, and not just the preface, to Murphy.		£125.00
Gordon Jacob [Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob] (1895-1984), composer, for forty years professor at the Royal College of Music [Marion Margaret Scott (1877-1953), violinist with her own string quartet] [Gordon Jacob [Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob], English composer.] Four Autograph Letters Signed about musical matters to the violinist Marion Margaret Scott, one, written during wartime, attacking Benjamin Britten and ‘young men who shelter abroad’. See his entry, together with that of Benjamin Britten, in the Oxford DNB, the latter explaining the context of the last letter, which is an attack on Britten and Peter Pears for not returning from the United States to wartime England. From the Scott papers. Each letter 2pp, 12mo, on a single...		£120.00
J[ames]. J[oseph]. Walsh. [Handbill] The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh. The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh. (Date and place not stated [c.1917]). Handbill poem, one page, 12mo, creased laid paper, mainly good condition. It is headed 'THE Flag on the G.P.O. \| Easter 1917. \| By J. J. Walsh', and with 'J. J. Walsh.' again at foot. The first of three...		£235.00
[The Irish Citizen] Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, largely devoted to women's suffrage (during the hunger strikes of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin) and with strapline: 'For Men and Women Equally \| The Rights of Citizenship; \| From Men and Women Equally \| The Duties...		£65.00
[William M. Murphy, preface; Independent Newspapers] [Pamphlet] Fifty Points against Partition. Fifty Points against Partition. With preface by William M. Murphy (Dublin: Independent Newspapers, Ltd., [1917]). Pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, fair condition only.The only copy on COPAC at the BL, which attributes the whole pamphlet, and not just the preface, to Murphy.		£125.00
Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956), novelist [Sheila Kaye-Smith, novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Greenwood', explaining her reason for doubting the possibility of making a film 'setting out the Christian attitude towards divorce'. 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly aged paper, with pin holes to one corner and a few drops of light staining. She thanks Greenwood for her letter, but does not feel that her 'Valiant Woman' has any 'chance of making a successful film, for the very reasons you say it ought to'. She...		£60.00
Hugh Walpole [Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole] (1884-1941), popular English novelist and author, born in New Zealand [Hugh Walpole [Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole], popular English novelist and author, born in New Zealand.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Miss Jennings’, complaining that there was ‘no half crown in the envelope’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Reads: ‘Dear Miss Jennings / Thank you for your letter. There was however no half crown in the envelope. I searched carefully. / Yours sincerely / Hugh Walpole’.		£50.00